Linda Hamilton Joins Stranger Things Season 5 as Military Scientist Dr. Kay

Linda Hamilton has entered stranger things Universe.

Beloved action star, perhaps best known for her performance as Sarah Connor Terminator The series of films, has made its debut in the first batch of deleted episodes from Season 5 of the hit Netflix series.

Hamilton, 69, has joined the cast as the villainous Dr. K, a military scientist who is hunting Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). Kay made her series debut in the premiere episode, “Chapter One; The Crawl”, but her involvement in the series has long been teased prior to the release of Volume 1 on November 26.

“He’s got a special agenda in there that’s been blocked for most of the season,” Hamilton previously told Netflix’s Tudum. “And that’s all I can say about him. But he was a lot of fun to play. He gave me some cool things to do. Gotta mix it up a little bit.”

Hamilton’s first scene shows him from the top down dissecting a creature that does not bite “but strangles.” He is angry with a sergeant who tells him that they failed to capture Eleven. “Please tell your commander that I’m hitting a wall here,” she tells the sergeant. “People are dying, innocent people. I need the girl.”

Hamilton’s arrival in the franchise comes nearly a decade after it first launched on the streamer in 2016. he told Diversity that she has been a fan of the show “from the beginning” and that stranger things Love “never diminishes.”

As he recalls, Hamilton had called his agent a month before playing the role and floated the idea of ​​retirement (in part because of “a very bad hip problem” and travel schedule). But then he got a call stranger things,

“There’s a part of me that would rather see it than be in it, because now that I’m in it, I don’t get to see it,” Hamilton explained. Diversity“I don’t watch my work, I can’t separate myself and my critical inner self from someone who is enjoying watching it, And watching this show is a treat,”

She added, “So during our script reading, I’m seeing everything, because I’ll never get a chance to see it on screen and see it unfold.”

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Matt Duffer describes the character of Dr. K Empire “Super-intelligent and intimidating” as well as a scientist who knows how to “shoot a gun”.

While she was technically “the last one to arrive at the party” in terms of casting, as she told Tudum, Hamilton had “a lot of fun” on the set, despite it being “a little nerve-wracking at first.”

season 5 stranger things According to an official synopsis from Netflix, it begins in the fall of 1987 after Vecna ​​”disappears” with his “unknown plans.” It is the newest installment of the show since season 4 ended in July 2022. This also marks the end of the series.

Brown, 21, told PEOPLE at the season premiere in Los Angeles on Nov. 6 that creating a family is “probably the most amazing part” of the experience since the show began. He said, “It’s taught me a lot of lessons about being a professional person, about being an actor, about being a friend.” “It’s given me the most amazing people in my life that I can call on when I need them most, and that’s my family.”

stranger things Season 5 Volume 1 is now available to stream on Netflix. This will be followed by Volume 2 on 25th December and the finale on 31st December.